Using the Rackspace Managed Cloud, Commando.io offers its customers a simpler way to manage servers online by making it easy to execute commands on groups of servers from a beautiful web interface. The mantra inside Commando.io is simplicity. Commando.io empowers everybody in a company to interact with servers via an easy to use web interface; including less technical employees such as support and marketing.

Others in the DevOps space are focused on ever increasing complexity and command line systems, explains Justin Keller, founder of Commando.io. Our approach is a beautiful web interface with no external dependencies (agents). ?

Keller says that other solutions in the space often have a steep learning curve.

Going with Chef or Puppet require a large time investment, and companies have to send developers off to Chef School for two weeks to learn their systems, he says. We don’t ask our users to go to school. They can sign up and start managing servers instantly with their existing stack and scripts.

The genesis for Commando.io came from solving a pain point at Keller’s previous startup, NodeSocket, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for hosting node.js applications.

Commando.io was the pivot for NodeSocket. We now have thousands of accounts created in over 80 different countries, and, by the end of 2014 our goal is to be profitable. notes Keller.

With the Commando.io poised for growth, the team takes up headquarters inside Rackspace’s Geekdom San Francisco, a collaborative workspace bringing great people together south of Market Street.

We really enjoy the relationships with other companies in the space, since they all tend to focus on developer tools or infrastructure, says Keller. The office space is also conveniently located in SOMA, and offers great amenities. Finally, they host great events usually a few times a week, from Docker, to tech talks, to investor pitches.